If you’re going to get into promoting teespring offers via FaceBook ads, then the question of ‘How to make good FaceBook Newsfeed Ads for Teespring will naturally arise.

Before I got into teespring, I was relatively new to FaceBook advertising. Most of my time previously was spent building Google PPC & PPV campaigns. I was actually doing quite well, around $100-$200 per day, sometimes even hitting $300.

The few times I DID try FaceBook to promote affiliate offers, I failed miserably. I could never get campaigns profitable let alone get a conversion. i knew there was something I was doing wrong but couldn’t put my finger on it.

For all that time I was using column ads which look like the below,

I’m sure this works for many affiliates, I just couldn’t get CPC’s lower then 50-60 cents. Come to think of it, it was probably also my crappy targeting.

After reading a lot on FaceBook and teespring, I saw a trend in success coming from using newsfeed ads. Immediately I saw a MUCH better response. Now days, that’s all I use. I can get CPC’s as low as 5 cents, (I’m sure other affiliates can get them lower), and most of the time build profitable campaigns.

In the case of teespring, I thought I’d write about how I go about setting up my newsfeed ad. It’s not rocket science and the basis of it all is to just make it simple-stupid.

Below as an example of what my ad would look like,

Why this Ad Works

The image is big, right in your face. You WILL notice it.

In the header I’ll write things like, Love Bass Fishing? This shirt is for you!

There’s an arrow pointing to the shop now, so people know where to click if they want to buy it. For us, it’s obvious but you’d be surprised how many messages you’ll get from people who don’t know where to buy it from.

It’s simple. It takes about 5 seconds to scan it, like it, and click it. Not too much text, just enough to give you an idea of what this is doing on your newsfeed.

I’ve found, the simpler you make things, the better the response you get. Especially when it comes to social media. People are there to have fun and see what their friends and family are up to. If you want to pitch them something, in this case, a shirt, then make it quick and effective.

Incoming search terms:

Enter The Unicorn

Most of the time you’re trying a bunch of ideas, putting your creativity to the test, sometimes even feeling like you’re kicking dirt around.

But every now and then you come across a unicorn,

Below is one of my unicorns. I’ve had $500 days before but nothing like this,

In 19 days, I made a whopping $82,000!

I felt like this guy,

I was selling about 600-800 shirts/hoodies a day and had about 140 or so running campaigns. I’m sure I could have reduced the cost if I was more stringent on checking everything but I was too busy just building, building and building and monitoring the CTR’s/frequencies of my ads.

On the 03/19/2014 sales started to die out for the country I was selling it in so I frantically started selling in other countries. I found success in many of the Europian/South American and even Oceanic countries. Some that worked real well were,

If you’re having a lot of success with your design(s), and you haven’t tested other countries I highly recommend doing so. It takes some time to figure out which ones are more profitable but you never know until you try and once you find out which ones work, the scale-ability on working designs will become much bigger.

How Did This Even Happen?

This isn’t my first attempt at this business. Actually, I got started with Internet Marketing in 2013 and saying it’s been a struggle is an understatement.

I remember working non stop 12+ hours hardly eating, hardly sleeping.

It was like I was figuring out a whole new world. Nothing made sense but everything seemed so appealing.ww

I didn’t care about anything apart from making it in this business.

As I continued, I came across random profitable campaigns that kept me going. Some brought in $20/day, some $300/day.

In the process I had gone from knowing absolutely nothing to knowing enough to make a dint in the industry.

Being successful in Affiliate Marketing consists of a few different things.

You gotta work hard, that’s a fact. The more you know, the bigger distance you create between yourself and the rest of your competition. Eventually you reach a space not many people are in and that’s when you kill it.

The other factor is luck. I didn’t want to say it but I had to. It’s not your average luck like the Lottery though. This is luck you work hard for.

What do I mean by that?

Luck in affiliate marketing is doing the right thing at the right time and having the right skills and resources to capitalise on it.

When I found my unicorn, I knew the very basics of design, how to set up basic campaign on FaceBook and a general idea of internet marketing. But, that was enough to capitalise on what I had found.

I was in the right place at the right time and had the skills to make it big.

Looking back, I could have probably made triple that but that just goes to show how much I have to learn in this industry.

Want to Make it Big in Teespring?

Every now and then I’ll see a monster campaign on Teespring or some other custom merchandise platform. I know it’s possible again with the right mindset and focus.

Frankly, Teespring for me, is not a full-time income model. It’s not something you can rely on to make money every single time. It’s something you do in hopes you’ll get a massive bank balance boost. A big campaign like mine will have you satisfied for a year.

If you want to do what I did, read all steps before you begin,

Step 1 – Preparation

Mentally prepare yourself for the sheer amount of work and determination required ahead.

This is noteasy. In fact, no business idea I can think of is easy at the start. If anyone says it is, be very cautious.

I’m not writing this post to give hope to lazy people who dabble in businesses here and there. Who give it a part-time focus.

I’m writing it for the hustlers. Those that take this seriously and keep going no matter what. You guys are the ones that deserve it and are going to get there, I promise you.

I also have to be honest and say Teespring in particular, is a tough nut to crack. It’s getting increasingly harder to find these but I always come across someone who is currently killing it.

Step 2 – Research

Before You Start Designing ideas out of the blue, you need to know what the proven process of Teespring is.

You can take the time to learn this yourself by trial and error or you can download the below book I wrote for my friends that wanted to get started. It goes through the entire process of,

It’s a lot of information so I decided to make it a PDF. Feel free to share it around!

If you don’t know what Teespring is, go to Teespring.com and familiarise yourself with the concept.

Basically you come up with the designs for the prints that go on the merchandise.

You bring in the sales and they’ll go manufacture, print, and deal with customer support. This is not like eBay.

You have to bring in the traffic and make sales. They’re just a clever manufacturing company that will handle everything else.

Step 3 – Now you Need to Build your Skills.

What skills am I talking about?

Marketers know a plethora of things that the common man, (or woman), doesn’t.

They know how to outsource, using basic photoshop, coding, website design, how to use paid marketing platforms to get traffic, how to network, etc.

Luckily, you just need to know master 2 of these right now.

Design & Marketing

I made a tonne of videos covering these topics and they’re all free and available to everyone on YouTube. They can be accessed here. The page has over 2,000 shares!

Go through them. Twice.

I have a course for serious Teespringers that goes through every aspect of Teespring you can imagine. But that’s for another day. Right now you need to just read and learn.

Step 4 – Start Launching

Get your feet wet. use the free videos to build your own campaign.

You can contact me here if you have any specific questions about your campaign.

You can only learn by putting money to the test. That’s another fact in this business.

When I say ‘learn’, I mean learn forever. Sure, you can read things from here and there but it won’t stick with you for ever. You’ll forget it after a week or two.

But, lessons you learn from losing/making money are different. These stick with you for a long time. This is why I spend every time I want to learn. I’ll spend on research tools, eBooks, traffic, traffic softwares, plug ins to make my life easier.

Some will be garbage, but some will give me a competitive advantage that will boost my revenue.

When you’re ready, build some campaigns and start advertising on FaceBook.

Step 5 – Networking

Get connected to different communities.

Forums are good, Teespring FaceBook groups are also good.

For now, just go to FaceBook and search Teespring groups. Join a few that have the most members. They’re great to get some information in to what everyone is doing and generally keep in touch with the industry.

Conclusion

Teespring is like a drug. The profits keep you addicted to the chase and over time the skills you learn will allow you to game the online marketing world.

I recommend everyone to give it a shot, it’s well worth the learnings and everyone who’s determined enough will make themselves a nice profit.